Both
sexes are attracted to rotting fruit. The males are strongly attracted
to urine-soaked sand, and also imbibe dissolved minerals from damp
soil, road surfaces and rock faces. They are very active butterflies,
easily disturbed, and rarely settle for more than a few seconds at a
time in one spot, but they will return repeatedly to the same patch of
ground.

They are usually seen in
two's or three's, but sometimes congregate in large numbers at
favoured spots. They are commonly found in the vicinity of human
habitations, e.g. on river banks close to jetties, at places where
laundry is washed, at ash covered ground at the site of campfires, and
at urine-tainted patches of bare ground.

When not feeding, males
perch on the upper surface of leaves at a height of about 2-3m,
awaiting passing females. They also commonly perch facing
head-downwards, on walls or tree trunks.

Just before sunset, males often bask with
wings almost fully outspread, on the foliage of trees and bushes,
before eventually retiring beneath a leaf where they spend the night,
protected from rain.

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